The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

A site about cable cars (also known as cable tramways) all over the world.

August, 2008 Picture of the Month: "Ninth Street, Kansas City, Looking West from Walnut Street -- Drawn by Charles Graham." From the 07-Jun-1890 issue of Harpers Weekly. It shows cable trains of the Kansas City Cable Railway on Ninth crossing the Metropolitan Street Railway's 18th-19th Streets cable line on Walnut New in August: An 1889 magazine article by cable railway engineer Robert Gillham, who designed and built many of Kansas City's cable car lines, along with a brief biographical sketch Also new in August: A report about a runaway cable car Coming in September, 2008: "The Cable Railway Company's System of Traction Railways for Cities and Towns": A promotional booklet published by the cable railway trust Also coming in September, 2008: Photos I took of a funicular and and an aerial tramway in Alaska Enter Frames version Copyright 1996-2008 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.

The rattlesnake's "... eye excelled in brightness that of any other animal, and ... she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage ... (S)he never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her." "An American Guesser" (probably Benjamin Franklin), 27-Dec-1775

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